Bitters recipe

Learn how to make bitters for your home mixology recipes!

These homemade cocktail bitters recipes make it easy to create your own unique bitters for drinks.Get creative and invent your own delicious bitters!

Amp up your at-home cocktails with these do-it-yourself bitters.

This week we show how to create your own Bitters and Tinctures by using a flavor library for blending.

Thinking about making your own bitters? This all-purpose guide to making and bottling homemade bitters will show you. Get started at Liquor.com.

I’m about to tell you something really embarrassing. Ever since the scene in Crazy, Stupid Love… the scene where Ryan Gosling makes a cocktail for Emma Stone… I’ve wanted to make bitters. Really. That’s been my driving force. hu. miliating. I mean, I’ve had bitters in my cocktails for years and have enjoyed them, but […]

If you’ve bellied up to a craft cocktail bar lately, you’ve likely noticed little bottles of concentrated spirit-and-botanical infusions adorning the bar top. These are homemade bitters, and they’re not so hard to make. These bitters are often the handiwork of the team behind the bar — and they run the gamut from the very versatile for a broad array of drink recipes, to very specific and esoteric flavors suited to just one or two drinks.

Cocktail bitters are one of the easiest ways to add complexity to a drink. Learn more about how to use this incredible, versatile ingredient.

You can use vodka or whiskey, if you prefer, in lieu of the rum. Note that the higher the proof (ABV), the better the extraction of flavors, so feel free to use any of those spirits with a higher alcohol level. I made the gentian root optional but it adds a husky bitterness that I find really makes the bitters, better. You can find it at herbalists, natural foods stores, or online at Penn Herb, Mountain Rose Herbs, and Etsy. You can also play around with the spices. A bit of cinnamon, a…

This citrus-spice cocktail bitters will go nicely with all of your favorite drinks that call for extra kick, or add a few dashes to a glass of seltzer for a refreshing thirst-quencher.